[31] Unfinished presentation drawing for a large epergne, c1781

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Kenwood, Hampstead, London: designs for the house and park for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, 1764-83 (55)
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      - Unfinished presentation drawings, and working drawings for a large epergne, c1781 (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/30

Purpose

[31] Unfinished presentation drawing for a large epergne, c1781

Aspect

Plan of the table slab for an elaborate epergne, with square and rectangular compartments flanked by lobed lunettes, supporting a colonnade, and ornamented with anthemia, fans, calyx, urns, patera, acanthus leaves, griffons and peltoid shields

Scale

to a scale, from observation of the pencil drawn fruit in Adam volume 49/29 it appears that the scale of these drawings is about half size

Inscribed

Plateau for Lord Mansfield (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) (verso) Number 8 / Lord Mansfields Epergne

Signed and dated

1781
datable to 1781

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow, red, and Prussian blue on laid paper (1697 x 503)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

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